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RJB's Animation Thread

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As always, you do some really top quality and awesome work RJB. :thumbsup:
 

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Outstanding as always man, exceptional quality :thumbsup:
 
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This is some very impressive top notch modeling. Plus you can't go wrong with ship fly-by's, they always look cool.
 

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Hello:
Wow, that model is very detailed, I bet it has quite some polies :) .
I also saw your previous videos, they are great.
Keep it up!
 

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wow, those are awesome.:shock: +1 rep for you mate:shock:
 

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Nice! I always loved that Ancient Bomber of yours. :thumbsup:
 

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I like. Not sure about lightwave, but I'd assume it's some sort of particle system?

Very fluid nonetheless, and with some glow applied for the final piece it will look brilliant :thumbsup:
 

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Yay, looks great! :thumbsup:
 

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I like. Not sure about lightwave, but I'd assume it's some sort of particle system?

Very fluid nonetheless, and with some glow applied for the final piece it will look brilliant :thumbsup:
Yes you are right it is a particle system. I may end up attaching models to the particles for the drones instead of using hypervoxels.

Got some experimenting ahead of myself.
 

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Hello:
I agree, the Bomber looks very good and the concept for Drones is great... I wish you could have something like that for Armada 1/2.
Keep it up! :)
 

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Hehehe, that was very cool, I can see that you can easily make recreations for some Stargate scenes or to make your own battles.
I look forward to see more :thumbsup:.
 

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Hello:
Hehehe, that was very cool, I can see that you can easily make recreations for some Stargate scenes or to make your own battles.
I look forward to see more :thumbsup:.
I'm taking part in a community demo reel to help promote another forum I'm part of. Each person is doing some still images and animations if they can. What I want to summit is a short scene of a ship coming out of hyperspace, firing off 20-50 drones and blowing something up.

Naturally I'll be posting my wip and final scene here.

Even better :thumbsup:. Did it make any difference to render time?
The first scene that just used hypervoxels took about 13-16 minutes to render out. The new scene with the modeled drones took under 10 so yes there was a fair sized time saving.
 

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Those are awesome!!! When do we get to see them blow things up???:yum:
 

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Those are awesome!!! When do we get to see them blow things up???:yum:
I'm about happy with the firing segment so I'm going back to work on the jumper out segment and then after that I'll start on the blowing up of stuff.
 
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I am amazed at how excellent all of this looks. professional grade stuff here, RJB.
 

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Yeah blowing stuff up is good.

You've done some real quality work here. Is this all done in Lightwave? Which version do you run?

I can't wait till this is completed and we can see the entire video in one shot. :)
 

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Yeah blowing stuff up is good.

You've done some real quality work here. Is this all done in Lightwave? Which version do you run?

I can't wait till this is completed and we can see the entire video in one shot. :)
Yes it's all done in Lightwave 9.6.

The firing effect was the easy part. It's going to take some trail and error to make the hyperspace window.
 

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I secured myself a copy of Lightwave 9.6 recently, for the purposes of high poly modelling a 3d animation.

Are you planing an entire video of the ships exiting hyperspace and shooting and blowing each other up?
 
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